Three Colorado girls soccer teams recently were among those ranked nationally by topdrawersoccer.com.

Grandview (No. 5), Broomfield (No. 8) and Columbine each made the list.

Aurora’s Grandview opened the season with an 8-1 whipping of Doherty. Broomfield is 3-0 and has an aggregate 14-1 scoring edge. Columbine also is off to a 3-0 start, winning by a combined 16-2 goals difference.

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Max George of Regis Jesuit High School (3) tag Carl Stajduhar of Rocky Mountain High School (30) at All City Stadium. Denver, Colorado. May 24. 2014. Rocky Mountain High School won the 5A state championship game by 6-5. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)

Here is The Associated Press Colorado prep baseball poll for the week of March 17, with first-place votes in parentheses, record, total points and last week’s ranking, as voted upon by a statewide panel of sports writers and broadcasters:

Sherm Pruit, Columbine’s first football coach, died on Jan. 21. He was 77.

Born Sherman Arch Pruit, he became the Rebels first football coach in 1973. Two years later, he had them in the Class 4A semifinals, then again eight years later, when Columbine beat Cherry Creek the year before the Bruins would win consecutive state titles. Columbine later fell to Mitchell in the final.

“Sherm was a great coach and laid the foundation at Columbine,” former Rebel John Nichols indicated in an e-mail.

Pruit also coached in New Mexico and Texas in addition to Jefferson High. He was at Columbine from 1973-86. Pruit also was a center and offensive guard at the University of Colorado from 1956-58.

On Columbine’s football website, former longtime principal Frank DeAngelis wrote: “Coach Pruit started the tradition of Rebel Ball. He made a difference in so many lives. He gave me a chance as a young coach back in 1981, I was his defensive coordinator and he was a great mentor. The life lessons I learned from him helped me throughout my life. Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time with him. He was so proud to be a Rebel! He had nothing but fond memories.
Coach Pruit, you will be missed, but not forgotten. Thoughts and prayers to the Pruit family. God Bless and love to all!”

Among his most cherished honors, Pruit was a member of the CU’s Football Legends and was the first inductee into Columbine Football’s hall of fame.

He is survived by wife Donna. They had three children, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

A memorial service was held at Columbine Baptist Church.

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Lauren Gregory #1061 of Fort Collins leads a group that includes Megan Mooney #1126 of Horizon, Maya Browning #1048 of Fairview, Emma Gee #1134 of Legacy and Heather Holt #1062 of Fort Collins during the Girls Class 5A Colorado state cross country championships at Norris-Penrose Event Center on October 25, 2014, in Colorado Springs. Gregory won the 5K race in 18:55.8. (Daniel Petty, The Denver Post)

Here are the results from the 2014 Class 5A girls state cross country meet, which took place Saturday at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs.

Grandview quarterback Cody Summers throws against Fountain-Fort Carson in the first quarter during the Colorado State 5A quarter playoff game at Legacy Stadium on Nov. 14, 2014. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

Colorado high school football wrapup for Oct. 10, 2014.

Cody Summers ran for a touchdown and then for another on Friday night as Grandview remained undefeated with a 24-6 decision of Cherry Creek in the high-end Centennial League at the Stutler Bowl in Greenwood Village.

Grandview, ranked No. 2 in the Associated Press Class 5A media poll, is 6-0 overall, 3-0 in the league. Seventh-ranked Cherry Creek, which hadn’t given up a point in three weeks, is 4-3, 2-1.

Summers threw for 102 yards and ran for 80 to lead Grandview’s offense. Defensively, the Wolves did not permit a point after the first quarter.

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In Highlands Ranch, the two-time defending 5A state champion and top-ranked Eagles handled the Cougars in the Centennial in a rematch of programs in the final two seasons ago.

Valor Christian (6-1, 3-0) was led by sophomore quarterback Dylan McCaffrey, who threw for a TD to Eric Lee Jr. and ran for another.

Fountain-Fort Carson s Demario Leonard is brought down by Columbine defenders in their Zero Week game on Aug. 22, 2014 at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood. Fountain-Fort Carson won 12-7. (Jamie Cotten, Special to The Denver Post)

For those of you looking to catch the Columbine football game Thursday and you’re not in Kissimmee, Fla., you’re in luck.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.